July 20, 2003	Sunday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 19, 1424

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KABUL, July 19: Sixteen Afghans detained by the American military at Guantanamo Bay were freed here on Saturday following their return from Cuba three days earlier, an Afghan police official said.

“Sixteen Afghan prisoners from Guantanamo Bay arrived on Thursday night by plane at the Bagram Air Base (40 kilometres north of Kabul),” said police official Mohammad Khalil Aminzada.

“They were handed over immediately to the Afghan police and brought that evening to Kabul,” he said.

The sixteen were interrogated for two days by the police and then freed late Saturday afternoon and handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross, he said.—AFP